Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Menoni, Scira (Editor), Margottini, Claudio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Natural disasters.; Geography.; Engineering geology.; Engineering > Geology.; Foundations.; Hydraulics.; Environmental engineering.; Biotechnology.; Social sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.; Geography, general.; Social Sciences, general.

This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation) project, funded as a Specific Support Action under the VI FP. This book addresses three main needs: first, it constitutes an assessment of t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Sustainable Risk Mitigation for a More Resilient Europe
•  Europe at Risk (Following EU Funded Research on Hazar and Risks)
•  Impact and Losses of Natural and Na-Tech Disasters in Europe
•  Current Mitigation Practices in the EU
•  Risk Futures in Europe
•  From Global to Local and from Local to Global: Examples of Event Scenarios in Europe.